Halfback wrote:I keep looking in the Dictionary for a "Bad" meaning for literal, but can't seem to find one.
Apparently Advocate does not like folks to be literal.
OK. I can live with that. However...... what do we term such a person? :wink:
Unliteral? Literalless?
Antiliteral? Nonliteral? Semiliteral? Quasiliteral?
Halfback
Call them
LIBERAL.
Thay r liberal because thay
DEVIATE.
The essence of liberalism is that deviation.
Literal = conservative; i.e., unbending, rigidly adhering to an idea; orthodox.
For instance, I had a cousin-in-law,
who was a bus dispatcher. His employer had a zero tolerance policy
for tardiness; accordingly, when bus drivers arrived for work,
when thay were even a minute late, thay were turned away, rejected,
and thay lost a day 's pay. He reported that this policy was not popular
with the bus drivers. Thay wanted a more
liberal puntuality policy,
such that thay 'd be accepted if thay arrived ten minutes late.
If thay were accepted and paid, after arriving an hour late,
that wud
MORE LIBERAL.
If thay were accepted and paid after arriving 3 hours late for work,
that wud be still MORE LIBERAL; if thay were still paid after reporting
a few weeks late for work, that wud be even more liberal.
Paying them for no work at all, wud be radical.
If a surgeon takes a liberal vu
of his hospital 's requirement that he wash his hands
before entering the bodies of the patients,
he might deem it sufficient if he washes only one hand.
Being LITERAL indicates unbendingly,
rigidly applying the rules.
That is the exact opposite of liberalism.
Liberals desire rules to be applied FLEXIBLY, with little regard for technicality.
For instance, if a liberal is playing poker
and he claims to have won the pot
with a diamond flush, he will deem it
close enuf, if he has 4 diamonds and a heart.
If the other players object,
he will deplore them for
literally applying the rules of poker.
He will accuse them of being
TOO TECHNICAL.
Liberals hold literalism ( or truth ) in abhorence
because of the absence of the flexibility of interpretation that thay desire
and that is the reason that liberals on this thread
have hurled emotional,
ad hominem acrimony against Halfback.
David
